[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Wierd dhcp problem that just started occuring...

[From: Kalle Valo]

"Mike Klein" <mklein at vxappliance.com> writes:

> Went to connect to web, etc. and started getting "network error".
>
> Got around to opening xterm and noticed "/etc/resolv.conf" had 127.0.0.1
> for name server?!?
>
> I haven't touched my main server's dhcpd config file for 2 years now.
> Disconnecting/reconnecting didn't update this file.
>
> When I update file manually to point to my dns...now I'm back on web.
>
> Am I confused or is this file supposed to get updated when you are dhcp
> client and this setting is pushed to you?

I think this getting to be a FAQ.N800 and 770 use dnsmasq for proxying
DNS queries. It's perfect valid to have 127.0.0.1 in /etc/resolv.conf.
The real DNS servers are written to /tmp/resolv.conf.wlan0 and
/tmp/resolv.conf.ppp0.

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Kalle Valo